Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly holds a candle to 1924, for example. That's when insecticide was introduced; Juan Gris lectured at the Sorbonne; Bloch wrote his piano quintet; Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue; Puccini, Turandot; Schoenberg, Erwartung; Forster, A Passage to India; Galsworthy, The White Monkey; Shaw, St. Joan; Mann, The Magic Mountain. It was also the year that Woodrow Wilson and Lenin died, that Hitler got out of prison, Coolidge was elected President, China, Britain and France recognized the U.S.S.R., Churchill became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, as everyone no doubt recalls, the Turks put down the revolting Kurds...
Pass-fail has become the magic of educational reform. At one college after another, students are being given the option of taking a course each term in which, so long as they do passing work, they are not graded...
Pass-fail's magic is limited by the heavy emphasis that graduate and professional schools will continue to put on grades and by the large burden that concentration requirements, and the desire to do well in their major, will continue to put on many undergraduates' schedules...
...hormone) over estrogen. Since the pills supply estrogen, they are often prescribed for treatment of acne. Other women complain that they don't menstruate while on the pills. This is seldom true, because of the pills' regularizing effect. A Los Angeles mother says that the pill was "magic-a godsend" for her 15-year-old daughter, whose menstruation was so irregular and heavy that she suffered serious blood loss and near-shock, and needed transfusions. On the pill for six months, she now has "pink cheeks, regular periods, a good figure and has gained ten pounds." Wryly...
Herbert Gold's "novel in the form of a memoir" is nostalgic enough to revive the lost magic of the 1930s for all who grew up with "Ovaltine Birthstone & Good Luck Rings . . . Joe Louis . . . black Fords with NRA stickers . . . tops from Ralston boxes to send away as a mark of esteem for Tom Mix." Novelist Gold (Therefore Be Bold) writes with fine irony, a strong sense of the absurd, and at times with the cynical insight accumulated by a perceptive man in 43 years of watching the shell game...